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    Louis E. Caldera

    Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

    • 22 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

    Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
    • Case

    Mercer Management Consulting (A)

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Echenberg
    Insurance giant Marsh & McLennan acquires management consulting firms Temple, Barker & Sloane (TBS) in 1987 and Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) in 1990 and sets out to merge the two. The merger proceeds slowly and painfully. Following the February 1990 merger,... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Horizontal Integration; Consulting Industry
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    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    George 24 JAN 2024 | Op-Ed Aggressive cost cutting and rocky leadership changes have eroded the culture at Boeing, a company once admired for its engineering rigor, says Bill George. What will it take to repair the reputational damage... View Details
    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Reinventing the Industrial Giant

    GM, Kodak has had a history of failure in adopting new technology. Former CEO George Fisher claimed that in 1997 digital cameras would break even; however, the company could not follow through on this. Also, View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
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    Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data

    By: Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim
    As the ESG finance field and the use of ESG data in investment decision-making continue to grow, the authors seek to shed light on several important aspects of ESG measurement and data. This article is intended to provide a useful guide for the rapidly rising number of... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Reporting; Data Analytics; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; CSR; Transparency; Investment Management; Socially Responsible Investing; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Development; Inclusion; Inclusive Growth; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Investment; Management; Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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    • January–February 2019
    • Article

    Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance

    By: Claudine Gartenberg, Andrea Prat and George Serafeim
    We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Purpose; Purpose; Employee Motivation; Belief Systems; Corporate Performance; Human Capital; Middle Management; Culture; Corporate Culture; Meaning; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Perception; Values and Beliefs; Performance Effectiveness
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    • February 2024
    • Supplement

    Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

    By: George Serafeim
    In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Entrepreneurial Finance; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo
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    • 28 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 28

    Link between Non-financial and Financial Performance in One Space Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Jess Schulschenk, and George Serafeim Publication: In Making Investment Grade: The Future of Corporate Reporting,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    The Political Power of Weak Interests

    By: Gunnar Trumbull

    One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details

    • November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
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    Community-First Public Safety

    By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
    How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
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    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July 2025 Case Microsoft’s Performance Across Three CEOs By: George Serafeim This case traces... View Details
    • 06 Dec 2013
    • Op-Ed

    HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

    in the same spirit by which he had lived during his imprisonment, Mandela joined George Washington in the select company of revolutionaries who use their newly-gained power to establish freer regimes... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda
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    Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

    June 2025 Teaching Material Transforming a Titan (C) By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene Three years in his tenure as CEO, Cobuz must decide whether to launch a more than 500 million... View Details
    • 12 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 12

      PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 13, 2010

    to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea—and being prepared for them—you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Business & Environment

    in Everglades restoration. Transforming a Titan (B) By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene JUNE 2025 | Teaching Material After a global search the board appoints Marcel Cobuz—ex-LafargeHolcim executive with... View Details
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    The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    research. Harvard’s role in the Hawthorne experiments gave rise to the modern application of social science to organization life and lay the foundation for the human relations movement and the field of organizational behavior (the study of organizations as social... View Details
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    Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

    faculty Co-Chairs George Serafeim and Ethan Rouen. The mission of the Project was to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a company’s financial, social, and environmental performance. The... View Details
    • 19 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 19, 2016

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51379 Who Pays for White-Collar Crime? By: Healy, Paul, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne